{"id":154837,"date":"2021-01-15T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codengine3.ch\/?product=import-placeholder-for-207029"},"modified":"2021-01-15T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T14:54:27","slug":"straight-up","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/shop\/straight-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Straight Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan Tales of the Unexpected  <\/p>\n<p>Born in the foothills close to the Himalaya Steve Berry had from an early age<br \/>\nan urge to become a traveller, an adventurer, an explorer, and until the age<br \/>\nof 38 years he tried hard to satisfy two opposing forces. Half of him wanted<br \/>\nto find a satisfactory career path while the other half wanted to be free and<br \/>\nspecifically explore the Himalaya. In the end he found a compromise to satisfy<br \/>\nboth needs. In 1987 with his climbing friend Steve Bell he founded Himalayan<br \/>\nKingdoms, a travel company specializing in trekking and expedition holidays.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a collection of stories from his early expeditions to the<br \/>\nHimalaya prior to 1987. There are tales of encounters with bears, escapes from<br \/>\navalanches, summit successes and failures, love stories, mystical connections,<br \/>\nHimalayan storms, near death accidents, raw travel across the Indian sub<br \/>\ncontinent, and grapples with bureaucracy. It is told warts and all. It starts<br \/>\nwith tales of youthful naivety in the mountains of Himachal Pradesh,<br \/>\nprogresses to what Steve describes as his best ever adventure, the first<br \/>\nBritish ascent of Nun, 7,135m\/23,410ft, in Kashmir, and finishes with the<br \/>\ntruth of what happened on the failed attempt to climb Bhutan&#8217;s highest peak,<br \/>\nGangkar Punsum, 7550m\/24,770ft.  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Himalayan Tales of the Unexpected Born in the foothills close to the Himalaya Steve Berry had from an early age an urge to become a traveller, an adventurer, an explorer, and until the age of 38 years he tried hard to satisfy two opposing forces. Half of him wanted to find a satisfactory career path [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36608,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[21542],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154837","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-sachbuecher-dokumentationen","7":"pa_autor-berry","8":"pa_erscheinungsjahr-21621","9":"pa_region-asien","10":"pa_sprache-en","12":"first","13":"instock","14":"taxable","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/154837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=154837"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=154837"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pizbube.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=154837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}